HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia says it favors an idea floated by neighboring Finland to abolish the practice of advancing the clock an hour during the summer within the European Union but is undecided yet which time it prefers to stay in permanently.<p>Economics Minister Kadri Simson said Thursday the …

Automating routine calculations and data assembly could free up workers to use their emotional intelligence instead<p>The robots are coming, artificial intelligence is expanding, yet no one is doing enough to make sure workers benefit rather than losing out. According to a new survey, a quarter of the …

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has returned to teach a class at Stanford University, according to a listing spotted by Stanford graduate Andrew Granato on Twitter. Thiel is currently listed as a co-instructor for “German 270: Sovereignty and the Limits of Globalization and Technology.” Thiel …

Productivity rates have not grown over the past several decades despite the large expansion of the overall research effort<p>Given the pace of technological change, we tend to think of our age as the most innovative ever. But over the past several years, a number of economists have argued that …